GardenWALK is a sustainable, locative sound walk performance, taking place along the streets of Strasbourg, Robertsau. It invites a visitor to relive the future impact of the planned Apollonia community garden to the immediate surroundings of district and its community.

An integral part of the project is a sound map with circular path which the visitor walks within the project. The beginning of this 1.6km long route and duration of 30minutes is at the Apollonia Garden, end of the rout is in Lieu de Europe Parc Henri.

Through the subtile sound inserts of the shared garden urban landscape sound and the sound scape transformation with vision of potentional possibilities, the sound walk performance sensitize public to experience the Robertsau quarter. Garden and gardening in this project is a metaphor for rethinking and re-cultivation of urban landscape changes in local society.

2.WALK is a locational multimedia performance taking place on city streets. It is designed as a sound walk, which the spectator takes on a pre-delineated path and follows it by means of a mobile app and headphones. With the help of sound images, imprinted into the location of the delineated path, she or he traverses between fictive and real situations. The performance intertwines narration and sound with space and path, and offers it thoroughly as experience. The sound image was made at the edges of the Ljubljanica River, taped by binaural and studio microphones.

When you are walking a safe, known city path, you find it hard to imagine that women in some parts of the world do not walk alone. That individual walking is connected with inappropriate, even illicit, behaviour. At this point, the mechanisms of control for safe walking of female individuals enter the picture, in the form of social regulations, which are, and will be in near future, strengthened by the apparatuses of power, control and capital. It is exactly these apparatuses that, now and here, are tailoring our everyday walking in safe areas. Walking becomes more time-constrained, regulated, precisely determined and directed.

Group, collective walking, as a revolt and conquering of space, is a reflection of political action. What about individual walking? Can walking, as a personal and conscious choice, be the power of an individual? An intervention into the existing social system. Is it radical to walk? Walking as a possible means of resistance, so much more so when time and space are taken by a woman, the woman who has socially and, consequently, self-regulating access to the time to walk.

WALKING the Aphelion delays and shifts the soundscape within the same location and the same transitioned path. It is focused on the spatial actualization of a place, while enhancing the awareness of the place through auditory experience.

The sound image was recorded with binaural microphones on the evening of July 4 2016, at the moment when the Earth reaches the point known as Aphelion – an extreme point in Earth’s rotation around Sun. The participants, equipped with headphones and a cellphone soundmap app, walk the same path at the same time of day the sound image was made with a time delay. The length of the delay is equal to a quarter of Earth’s rotation – just after autumnal equinox.

In Janury 2017 we will produce soundwalk sequel: WALKING the Perhihelion. It will be recorded at the time when Earth reaches the opposition extreme point on its rotation around the Sun.

These soundwalks will form a pair to cyclic listening on the same spot where binaural recordings were recorded or as a pair on a remote location.

Soundwalks WALKING the Aphelion and WALKING the Perhihelion were recorded in the main city Tivoli Park, Ljubljana in order to research preception of a city park as an urban sonic ecology landscape within different time frames listenings.

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Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:05:18 +0000http://www.irenapivka.si/?p=229On 18th July 2016 Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman dedicated their two short early morning sound walks to the #WLD2016 event focusing on Sounds Lost and Found.

We have used binaural in-ear microphones to record sounds at two very different locations in two different states: one was in park Tivoli in Ljubljana, Slovenia while the other was on the island of Molat in Croatia. At both locations we walked between two formerly important social places, located away from the centre, in the park and in a garden.

All objects (starting and ending points of both soundwalks) have been officially closed for a number of years and the facilities have declined. All of them have been closed due to recent historical, political and economical changes. Following the years of closure they have been attempts to revive these locations but it seems that the social interests have shifted in a different direction.

By connecting two locations in two different towns we highlighted the broken paths and connected the locations from our not so distant memories.

Isn’t it amazing how one little self-absorbed creature that must always be the first fed, the first put in dry diapers, the first to be loved, becomes a man who sincerely cares for another man?

Abrasion of Beauty is the story of the collapse of the community. It is the story of the (virtual)-dependency of the struggle for power and the struggle for survival. The story of manipulation. And about that “consciousness and responsibility,” which are born too late. And last but not least, it is a reflection of the human. Human as a basic part of the Community (and its policies). Human as adversarial entity, which is on one hand defined by the need for power, egoism, total supremacy; and on the other by the need for belonging, security, acceptance, and love.

If the law does not regulate terms of the survival, but more or less the power of the players — is in this case, the struggle for power equated with the struggle for survival and justifies any form of coercion, including war and destruction?

radioCona is a platform that uses the radio-frequency space in the art contexts. FM frequency is understand as public space and explored from a different perspectives and mediated through artworks, audiobooks, programming and exhibitions. radioCona is intervention into public space.

Art project radioCona first broadcasted on january 1st, 2008. Till present numbers FM and internet broadcasts with series of sound art, radio art, discursive projects, thematic discussions and lectures were produced.

radioCona broadcasting is announced at the competent national agency for the regulation of the frequency space with an aim to thematise the use of public space as a public good within the existing legislation and to think the non-media use of the frequency radio space.